Originally Posted by
mahohmei
I'm thinking in what some people might consider a very weird way: I don't want to have to either "declare a firearm" in my luggage or use a bagcam to keep things from being stolen out of my luggage. I simply want TSA clerks to have _no_ authority to touch luggage once they clear it through the checked-baggage bomb sniffer.
We would all love for that to be the case, but today that isn't the reality we have to live in.
Originally Posted by
mahohmei
So I'm wondering if this is the case. When my bag comes out of the TSA bomb sniffer and an airline employee grabs it, is the TSA done with that bag for good? Or can they go under the airport and force airlines to fork over checked bags?
We mere mortals of the traveling public aren't privy to that information. The TSA considers the details of what happens behind the scenes to be SSI, and not for the public to know. While there are some good reasons for that attitude, the TSA takes it to ridiculous, and pointless extremes.